When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless.

That day which you fear as being the end of all things is the birthday of your eternity.

It is the characteristic of a weak and diseased mind to fear the unfamiliar.

If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

As fate is inexorable, and not to be moved either with tears or reproaches, an excess of sorrow is as foolish as profuse laughter; while, on the other hand, not to mourn at all is insensibility.

He worships God who knows him.

When one has lost a friend one's eyes should be neither dry nor streaming. Tears, yes, there should be, but not lamentation.